Voluntary social care recruitment
ESSS Outline
Identifies evidence around recruitment strategies from voluntary social care and other relevant sectors and industries.
Published in
on 15 Jan 2018
Co-production Project Planner
A resource to support co-production projects happen effectively
Contains a project planning workbook, a guide to planning co-production projects and a suite of Iriss facilitation tools.
Published in
on 8 Jan 2018
Distributed leadership in early years and childcare
ESSS Outline
Explores distributed approaches to leadership in the context of childcare and early years settings. It provides some background to Scottish policy priorities and principles of leadership and distributed approaches.
Published in
on 19 Dec 2017
Conversations with the Dundee Early Intervention Team
a series of conversations with families supported by the team
Conversations with families and practitioners about how a social pedagogy model makes a difference to parents and children.
Published in
on 7 Dec 2017
Social work student placements and employability
ESSS Outline
Identifies evidence around social work placements and the differences and similarities between statutory and voluntary placements.
Published in
on 6 Dec 2017
Child sexual abuse images online and risk of contact child sexual abuse
ESSS Outline
Identifies evidence relating to the relationship between adults who access child sexual abuse images online and those who commit contact offences.
Published in
on 6 Dec 2017
Child sexual abuse and good practice for social workers
Identifies evidence around good practice approaches to investigating child sexual abuse that may minimise harm or distress to children and non-abusing caregivers.
Published in
on 16 Nov 2017
Disability hate crime reporting
ESSS Outline
Identifies evidence relating to the efficacy of interventions in increasing reporting of disability hate crimes and supporting people through the process of reporting, and potential areas of unmet need.
Published in
on 16 Nov 2017
What the public think about Scottish social services and why
Report summary produced by Iriss on behalf of the Social Work Services Strategic Forum
This summary, produced by Iriss on behalf of the Social Work Services Strategic Forum, presents the key findings of research which set out to better understand public perceptions of social services. It explores the level of knowledge, understanding and attitudes towards social services and the reasons for these views.
Published in
on 31 Oct 2017
Electronic monitoring in the criminal justice system
Insight 40
Introduces the ways in which EM is currently used in Scotland, alongside international evidence and experience, to identify key issues and implications for use.
Published in
on 10 Oct 2017
